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Kumara Times, Issue 1514, 4 August 1881, Page 2

A money order office was opened at Coalgate (Chief Office, Christchurch), on the Ist inst.

Truly the ways of the Post Office authorities in Wellington are mysterious, and past finding out. In a return recently published in the New Zealand Gazette, wc find that the subsidy for the conveyance of mails between Hokitika and Kumara, via A rah lira, Stafford, and Waimea, is £2OO per annum, while the contractor for carrying the mails between Kumara and Hokitika, via Waimea, Stafford, and Arahura, receives but £39. Why is this thus ‘I

Tenders are required by the Westland County Council for widening section No. 2 (one mile) Dillman’s-Christchurch road track, and for a track from Hatter’s track to Liverpool Bill’s Gully (29| chains). Tenders close at noon on Wednesday next, the 10th August. Specifications for

the first-mentioned work can be seen at the Council Chambers, Hokitika, or (tomorrow evening and after) at Mr R. J. Seddon’s, Kumara. Replying to Mr Seddon, in the House on Friday last, the Hon. Mr Rolleston said the Government had under consideration a recommendation to cause a trustworthy Chinese interpreter to be appointed for Waimea and Staff >rd Courts.

The first prize in Cameron’s Derby sweep went to St. Bathan’s, the second to Wairaate, and the third to Wellington. Three non-starters came to The Lead, viz., 204 The Chief (ticket No. 3686, 210 Strathleven (No. 2433), and 120 Confidence (2885 or 2895—there is some doubt which). The sweep was drawn for £4325.

The latest Melbourne betting in doubles on the Y. R. C. Derby and Melbourne Cup are as follow :

1000 to 30 Monmouth and Monmouth 1000 to 30 Darebin and Darebin 1000 to 20 Spinningdale and Spinningdale 1000 to 20 Nautilus and Nautilus 1000 to 15 Soumus and Soninus 1000 to 15 Somerset and Somerset 1000 to 15 Duke and Duke 1000 to 5 Monmouth & Falmouth (tk) 1000 to 5 Somnus & Sir Modred (tk).

We have received from Messrs Nancarrow and Co., Greymouth, a handy little pocket guide, issued by the Union Steamship Company, giving the dates of arrival and departure of the company’s steamers from the various New Zealand and Australian ports for the month of August, and showing how the steamers systematize with the railway time-tables at the several ports. All sea-going travellers should obtain a copy, which may be had gratuitously from either of the agents.

A public meeting is called for this evening by his Worship the Mayor of Greymouth, for the purpose of establishing a High School at Greymohtlr. The Union Company’s new steamer Mahipori, Thqmas Logan, commander, is advertised to leave Clyde, for Melbourne and New Zealand, early in November. She is expected to make tlxe passage to Melbourne in forty-five days, and to New Zealand in fifty-bhe clays. She should reach New Zealand abofit the middle of January. During the passage of the N -Z. Co.’s ship Waipa, which arrived at Lyttelton from London on Saturday last, one of the apprentices named Winchester, suffered from an attack of small-pox. As he had been convalescent for some two months previous to arrival, the health officer did not consider it necessary to place the Waipa in quarantine, especially as no other case occurred on board. All the boy’s clothing and effects had been destroyed. Mr Bnnguard, the chief officer, reported that the master, Captain John Goru, had died on the 17th June, from chronic lumbago and sciatica. The Press reports :—The death of the master was almost expected, he having suffered severely from the fatal complaint for some time before the ship left London. It is reported that he had written to his wife and family, who reside at Dunedin, that he was afraid he would not survive another voyage, a fear which unfortunately was sadly realised. The late Captain Gorn had been formerly a pilot at Port Chalmers, and was afterwards in the Union Company’s service. He had been in command of the Waipa for some years, and had consequently a great many friends in the colony. His officers who have travelled with him speak in the most affectionate terms of his qualities, and the company in whose services he spent the last of his life highly esteemed him. He was buried at sea on the evening of the date of his death.

The Government have advanced the Thames local bodies £3OOO towards repair* ihg the damage caused by the late flood, The Upper Waitaki bridge (Otago), after having cost £15,000, is in the position of being unavailable for traffic because of there being no approaches. The County Council declines to spend any more money on the work.

An Oamaru storekeeper, named Neil Campbell, was, on Monday last, committed for trial by Mr Watt, for selling gunpowder without a license. Bail was allowed, himself in £IOO and two sureties of £SO each.

The prospectus has been issued in London of a company called Robert Campbell and Sons, Limited, with a capital of £OOO,OOO, to purchase land and further develop sheep fanning in New Zealand. A young man in Melbourne has been sent to gaol for six months for pestering a young lady with his unrequited love effusions, and threatening her father with sudden death.